Nice work Veks. Can't imagine any of the technical stuff is easy even when there is the money to handle it. Perhaps some sort of fund-raiser could be worked out to supply the money for an SSD? Maybe work it in with a writing contest - or some such? I dunno. I'm just tossing about thoughts in my head.

sar reports high-ish iowait around 3:05, 4:35, and 5:25 PM CST (the last would correspond to Saerra and LunarSage's posts).

I'm less specifically concerned if reports of lag match up with times when the system tells me it's struggling, as opposed to slowness coming out of nowhere.

I try to post exactly when it happens *smiles* All's fine here again, by the way.Also will try to restrain from posting here next time I experience lag when I see a post has been recently made about it.